"It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein."

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Source : Eva Hoffman (2014). “Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe”, p.202, Faber & Faber

Eva Hoffman

#Ideas Quotes #Different Quotes #Veins Quotes

“Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.”

Source : "Is the American Right ready for Rudy?" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2007.
“Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.”
“The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.”
“As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.”
“Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.”
“Truth is but approved facts.”
“There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.”
“Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.”

Source : Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”

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